Letter (2 August, 1945) from Tambimuttu to Mrs Michael Sayers: 'Gavin has asked me to let you know about the fate of the poems he has sent me during the past year.' Some retained for 'the next PL'.
Correspondence and a large number of poems, many of which were intended for the planned Editions Poetry London volume 'Appassionata' that did not appear (it was publicised on the back covers of Poetry London issues 11-14). Correspondence: Scarfe to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 30 May, [1941]), with...
Letter (manuscript, Travellers Club, Pall Mall, 10 March, 1947), Scott to Tambimuttu, enquiring about progress on the publication of a monograph on John Tunnard. [Although listed for publication, the volume did not appear.]
Two poems (typescript): 'Sea-dirge' (dated December, 1940), and 'Poem in Time of Search', both published in Keidrych Rhys (ed.), Poems from the Forces (1941), pp. 115-117, and both published in Tambimuttu (ed.), Poetry in Wartime (1942), pp. 157-159. Letter to Tambimuttu (West Africa, 1942) for...
Letter (6 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu to Scurfield, returning 'The Worcestershire Cow' (not present). Also, the following poems (typescript): 'Song: The Bitter Mangoes'; 'Green Sandbags'; 'A growing self-detachment…'; 'For the tragedy…'; 'Song' ('I remember, I remember...').
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Seaman, H Broadberry
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Letter (typescript, 10 July, 1945) from Seaman to Tambimuttu, submitting poems (not present), together with an unfavourable reply (12 September, 1945).
Two letters (typescript, 4 March and 4 August, 1945) from Seaton to the Editor, submitting poems (not present), together with a reply (19 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu, retaining a poem 'for possible inclusion in the Services number of PL'.